State-building, expansion and conflict

Civilization: Mesopotamia

Name: Melinda Lam


Themes
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Political Structures and forms of governance
  • Sumerian kings emerged into Mesopotamia, ventured their own societies, and later conflicts turned to wars.
  • Conquerors extended their authority and built empires that took over affairs of cities and people
  • Each king had their own way of governing their empire
Revolts and revolutions
  • Sargon seized control and his empire embraced all of Mesopotamia
  • After Sargon's empires fell of rebellion, Hammurabi later reignd as king of four quarters of the world, and became a more effiecient ruler than Sargon since he had his own techniques
  • After Hammurabi's reign was over, Assyrians took over
  • However, Assyrian's empire was really unpopular which resulted in a fall and Babylonian empire was taking over for the second time
Empires
  • Mesopotamian empires became stronger when Sumerian kings started improving on their reign
  • Hammurabi reigned the Babylonian empire and did a better job than Sargon because of his code, and ruling techniques
  • The Assyrian empire ruled after the Babylonian empire collasped but its domination was quite unpopular
  • So for half a century, Babylon once again dominated Mesopotamia after the Assyrian empire had fallen
Nations and nationalism
  • For almost a millenium, Sumerians cities such as Babylon, Kish, Nippur, Lagash, Uruk, Ur, and Eridu dominated affairs in Mesopotamia
  • Basically, these empires ruled and took place in parts all over Mesopotamia
Regional, transregional, and global structures and organizations
  • The organization of each empire was operated differently in their own ways
  • For example, Sumerian kings ruled in cooperation with nobles, Sargon reigned by conquering and seizing, Hammurabi ruled by a code, and Assyrians ruled by organizing powerful armies
  • The structure counted on whether kings ruled great or not, if not, their empire would fall because of rebellions